Azure Microsoft.Azure.Diagnostics Extension - powershell

Question

Trying to configure the BootDiagnostics on a VM on a storage account in a resource group different from the VMs. To the best of my knowledge this can only be done by installing the VmDiagnosticsExtension. I'm executing the following:
Set-AzureRmVMDiagnosticsExtension -ResourceGroupName $RgName -VMName $VmName `
-DiagnosticsConfigurationPath 'D:\DiagnosticsConfig.xml' `
-StorageAccountEndpoint '/subscriptions/ff26f7/resourceGroups/rgroup/providers/Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/amsdiag01'`
-StorageAccountName 'amsdiag01' `
-StorageAccountKey 'key''>
I get this error message:
ErrorMessage: Handler 'Microsoft.Azure.Diagnostics.IaaSDiagnostics'
has reported failure for VM Extension
'Microsoft.Insights.VMDiagnosticsSettings' with terminal error code
'1009' and error message: 'Enable failed for plugin (name:
Microsoft.Azure.Diagnostics.IaaSDiagnostics, version 1.6.3.0) with
exception Command
C:\Packages\Plugins\Microsoft.Azure.Diagnostics.IaaSDiagnostics\1.6.3.0\DiagnosticsPluginLauncher.exe
of Microsoft.Azure.Diagnostics.IaaSDiagnostics has exited with Exit
code: -106'
No further information available in C:\WindowsAzure\Logs\WaAppAgent.log on server. In the portal under 'Diagnostics' I can see the correct configuration. But the extension is in a '(unavailable)' state. Container in storage account is not created. Also, can't reboot the server due to the extension. I can remove and re-add the extension using PowerShell, but always same result. When performing a Get-AzureRmVMExtension I see the following 'Public Settings' entry:
PublicSettings : {
"storageAccount": "amsdiag01",
"xmlCfg": "PFdhZENmZz4NCiAgICAgIDxEaWFnbm9zdGljTW9uaXRvckNvbmZpZ3VyYXRpb24gb3ZlcmFsbFF1b3RhSW5NQj0iNDA5NiI+DQogICAgICAgIDxQZXJmb3JtYW5jZUNvdW50ZXJzIHNjaGVkdWxlZFRyYW5zZmVyUGVyaW9kPSJQVDFNIj4NCsKgwqDCoMKgwqAgICAgIDxQZXJmb3JtYW5jZUNvdW50ZXJDb25maWd1cmF0aW9uIGNvdW> eU5hbWU9IkNQVSBwcml2aWxlZ2VkIHRpbWUiIGxvY2FsZT0i

Answer 1

I've chosen not to use extensions but instead using the following:
$RgName = 'RG1'
$VmName = 'VM01'
$Vm = Get-AzureRmVM -ResourceGroupName $RgName -Name $VmName
$Vm = Set-AzureRmVMBootDiagnostics -Enable -VM $Vm -ResourceGroupName $RgName -StorageAccountName diagss01
Update-AzureRmVM -ResourceGroupName $RgName -VM $Vm